Conventions Used in This Book

To make the best use of your time and energy, you should know about the conventions that we use in this book.

When we want you to type something, such as Few would dispute that Marmite is an acquired taste, it’s in bold type. When we want you to type something that’s short and uncomplicated, such as Jennifer, it still appears in boldface type.

Except for passwords, you don’t have to worry about the case of the letters you type in QuickBooks. If we tell you to type Jennifer, you can type JENNIFER or follow poet e. e. cummings’ lead and type jennifer.

Whenever we tell you to choose a command from a menu, we say something like “Choose Lists⇒Items”, which simply means to first choose the Lists menu and then choose Items. The ⇒ separates one part of the command from the next part.